change node "Disconnected" information in WebGUI...

[jedie]

I think the "disconnect" information of a node is confusing. "Disconnect" is more a Node is complete offline than a kind of idle state. It's more "Have i input the wrong IP?"

If i see it right there is only the state "Disconnected", "Syncing (x %)" and "Up to Date", isn't it?

Maybe: remove "disconnected" and add "offline" and "idle":
"Offline" is a node if it's really not alive: e.g.: no ping
"idle" is a node, if it's online, but no transfer is active, but also not "Up to Date"

[calmh]

"Offline" is "Disconnected", and "Idle" as you describe it here isn't really supposed to happen...?

[jedie]

"Offline" is "Disconnected"

Then there is something wrong with this information, because many nodes are often "disconnected" but they are alive. Maybe syncthing doesn't ping them often?

[calmh]

Disconnected means exactly that we do not have a connection to the node. Either it's down, unreachable or discovery doesn't find it.

[calmh]

(There might be a bug here, but it's probably not the wording - run with STTRACE=net to figure out what it's trying to connect to and not)

[jedie]

Exist there a state for:

• PC is running, ping to IP is ok, but syncthing not running?
• Node is running, syncthing runs, but doesn't communicate with other syncthing note (maybe version mismatch or certificate error or wrong note ID etc.)

[calmh]

No. We can't know if the PC is up or down unless we can talk to syncthing on that box. If there are connection errors, then they show up in the warnings list in the GUI.

[jedie]

syncthing can't use ping? Because it has no root rights?

I try to figure out what happen here. I have used STTRACE=net
First: It seems that only failed connection messages are traced. There is not message about a successfully connection, isn't it?

One thing i found out:

• Node foo listed node bar with disconnected
• at the same time: Node bar listed node foo as connected with all informations, but stays with 0bps Up-/Download rate

Relate to this: If you start up syncthing and look into WebGUI all clients are disconnected as default. What's about change this to "wait..." or the same as on repo "unknown"? On first failed connection, change to "disconnect"